Measles alert in Brisbane and Mount Isa

The Queensland Health Department has issued a measles warning for Brisbane and Mount Isa.

There are concerns residents of Brisbane and Mount Isa may have been exposed to measles when a traveller returned from Asia with the disease on January 2.

The infected person flew into Brisbane where they spent the day before flying to Mount Isa.

The health department is urging anyone who was at the Brisbane International Airport around one o’clock early in the morning of January 2, or in the the Brisbane CBD the same day, to seek immediate medical advice if they feel unwell.

Anyone who was at Brisbane’s domestic airport around six o’clock on the morning of January 3, or anyone who flew to Mount Isa that morning, should also be on alert for symptoms.

Symptoms of measles include fever, lethargy, a moist cough and sore and red eyes, followed a few days later by a red rash.